hot dog - great progress on your new baby !

be SURE you have the CV joint screws in there really very good and tight.

got your money's worth out of those olds I like to say, about really trashed
parts.

----- Original Message -----
From: "J Stewart" <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 1:48 PM
Subject: CV Joints

> OK, tackled HALF the job today. Thanks again to everyone who told me about
> the link to Ben McCafferty's article about CV joints at Van Cafe's web
> site. I don't think I will ever be able to share Bens enthusiasm for doing
> CV joints.
> What a miserable job! I actually found a pair of used CV joints from
> another bus I owned sometime in the past. I disassembled those and cleaned
> them up. I removed the right axle. A week or so ago when I heard the
> clunking my daughter was riding in the back and said it was coming from
> the right rear. The "grease" in those CV joints was dried and clumpy. The
> balls in the joint have turned a blueish-black, I assume from overheating.
> So anyway, I swapped those two for my two that I cleaned and repacked with
> grease and got it all back together. Took a test drive for a few miles and
> went to a parking lot and did circles in both directions and didn't hear
> any noises. However, if the right side looked this bad, I counting on the
> left side being nearly as bad. Next week or two I'll tackle the left side,
> but I'm not looking forward to it, thats for sure! Jeff
>
>
> Jeff Stewart